Liberal modernity and its adversaries : freedom, liberalism and anti-liberalism in the 21st century / / by Milan Zafirovski.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, v. 10
• Author: Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (589 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This is a book about modern liberal society and its adversaries. The book rediscovers and rehabilitates much maligned, especially in America, liberalism as the ideal system of liberty in relation to anti-liberalism as one of un-freedom. It rediscovers liberal modernity as a free, equal and just social system and time, thus most compatible with and enhancing of human civilization ushering in the 21st century. It exposes anti-liberal adversaries, especially conservatism, as ideologies and systems most inappropriate with and destructive of civilization. The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its anti-liberal adversaries, notably conservatism, as the ghosts of a dead past. The anti-liberal rumors of the ‘death’ of liberalism are ‘greatly exaggerated’.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Zafirovski -- Chapter One. Introduction / Zafirovski -- Chapter Two. Liberal society and modernity: Ideals and institutions of liberalism / Zafirovski -- Chapter Three. Social factors and effects of liberalism / Zafirovski -- Chapter Four. Types of liberalism / Zafirovski -- Chapter Five. Liberal democracy: Political liberalism / Zafirovski -- Chapter Six. Liberal civil society and culture: Socio-cultural liberalism / Zafirovski -- Chapter Seven. Conclusion / Zafirovski -- References / Zafirovski -- Index / Zafirovski.